20 The VVesl Avierican Scientist. 



Mr. Garrett visited and explored many parts of the Atlantic and 

 Pacific coasts of South America, the East and West Indies, the 

 Sandwich Islands and some parts of the United States. His dili 

 oence and learned researches, soon gave him a place as an 

 authority among- conchologists — an authority now everywhere 

 recognized. His correspondents were very numerous, residing 

 in every part of the world. Mr. Garrett's private collection of 

 shells (now on sale) consists of over 8000 species and comprises 

 over 30,000 examples, representing almost every known part of 

 the globe. Of this collection Mr. Garrett himself collected over 

 4000 species. He was a corresponding member of the California 

 Academy of Sciences, and of the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natunil Sciences. The following is a list of Mr. (kirrett's princi- 

 pal writings. In the proceedings of the Zoological Society, 

 London: -A list of MitricUe collected at Rarotonga, Cook's Isles; 

 descriptions of two new species of Separatista; of two new 

 species of Coecum; a new species of Scissurella ; on the 

 terrestrial Mollusca of the Viti Islands. In The Quarterly 

 Journal of Conchology, Leeds, England: ' Occurrence of 

 Crepidula aculeate at the Marquesan Islands'; 'Occurrence of 

 Gadinia reticulata in Eastern Polynesia;' 'Annotated catalogue 

 of the species of Conus collected in the South Sea Islands;' 

 'Catalogue of the Polynesian Mitridie, with remarks on their geo- 

 graphical distribution, station and position of a supposed new 

 species;' 'Annotated catalogue of the Cyprctidea collected in 

 the South Sea Islands." In The American Journal of Conchology 

 vol. VII.: Descriptions of new species of land and fresh water 

 shells from the South Sea Islands;' 'List of Viti Bulimus and 

 descriptions of new species.' In proceedings of the California 

 Academy of Natural Sciences: 'Description of new species of 

 shells inhabiting theSandwich Islands;' 'Descriptions of new species 

 of fishes inhabiting the Sandwich Islands;' 'Descriptions of new 

 species of South Sea Shells.' In the proceedings of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia: 'On the terrestrial Mollusca 

 Inhabiting Cook's Island, Society Islands and Samoan groups;' 

 •List of land shells inhabiting Rurutu (one of the Austral Islands) 

 with remarks on their synonyms and geographical range.' 



FOSSIL BOTANY— IV. 



There seems to have been a well marked and close relation 

 between the more recent fossil plants of California, and the pre- 

 sent flora of the Gulf States, indicating a more humid atmosphere 

 during later pliocene times. 



Perhaps the fact that a species of fern (Aspidium patens, 6'z<:'/2'.) 

 growing in a canyon near Santa Barbara, California, and not 

 lound at any other point in the United States west of Florida and 

 Texas, is an instance of the holding over of a species, which is 

 becoming extinct in the western portion of the continent, is oneol 



